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re: sibling rivalry
I was going on 6 by the time my younger brother was born. Sadly, most of the advice for reducing/preventing sibling rivalry was geared towards younger kids, and my mother failed to appreciate this fact.
When she gave me the baby doll "from the baby," I was glad to have a new doll, but I wasn't impressed by her story. She had just gotten through explaining to me about how newborn babies were too little to play games with me yet, yet I was supposed to believe that this kid somehow went with them to the store and picked out a gift for me? I was also old enough to know that babies didn't have their own money. Everything about the story was suspicious, but I liked the doll well enough to keep my skepticism to myself.
She had also read that she should involve me in helping to care for the baby. I wasn't into it. I was finishing kindergarten. I had Important Things to do, like riding my big wheel around the block with my BFF. One day, my mom asked me to help her do something or other with the baby, and I went off. I don't remember, but apparently I went on a tiny tirade, telling her that I was so tired of having to do things for "that baby," I wasn't the one who wanted a new baby, and she could do it herself, I was going out to play.
Re: re: sibling rivalry
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mr kat and his sister were 18 months apart.
mr kat took it upon himself to steel her bottle when ever he had a chance. i'm surprised the poor little thing didn't starve.
Ha. We got toys from the new baby every time someone was born in my house. But it was treated the same way as Santa Claus--"well, the baby is too little to pick out presents so mommy and daddy helped him/her."
L&R - someone posted on the AP board the other day about how they had to "imprison" their infant in the play pen to protect him from the toddler brother, who pushed him and said "timber" every time the infant sat up. She was all pleased because once she separated them, the toddler started bringing all the toys in the house to the playpen so the baby could have them. I wanted soooooo desperately to tell her that the toddler was just trying to drown the baby, but I didn't feel like getting banned again so soon.
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but I didn't feel like getting banned again so soon.
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This is like my sister and I. I remember the night my sister was born. I got to sleep over at a friend's house ON A SCHOOL NIGHT. Then the next morning I had a choice: go to school or go see my sister in the hospital and visit my mom. I chose hospital. I distinctly remember doing it because I would miss school. Fvkc my sister.
I also got pissed at my mom's baby shower. We were living in Hawaii and the other officer's wives threw my mom a shower and she got all these gifts. I got nothing. Hoar.